Homework help!!!!?

[ExcuseMeDawg]

why did hitler persecute the jews?


pleeeeeeze help.
hey. i have blond hair and blue eyes.

[Jessica W]

he thought they were in the way of everything and they caused the war.....here is a fact hitler was a quarter jew

[Angelness]

He thought Aryans (oddly enough, he wasn't one) were superior to all other races. He wanted the 'less pure' races out of Germany. It wasn't JUST Jews he persecuted - he also took down homosexuals, et cetera. There are thousands of sites out there that can help you with this.

[gilligann :)]

he just thought that jews were an inferior race and aryans were supreme
and first of all... its important to know that hitler was obviously not of the "supreme" aryan race... that shows what an amazing and powerful speaker he is to turn half the continent against jews and think that he and all the aryans are 'pure'
and im not sure...you should look it up or something cuz i just heard it somewhere...
but i heard hitler's dad or something was a jew and he hated his dad therefore hating all jews.
i dont know.
i dont trust me.
but i would look it up.

[sweetpea160]

because they were Jewish. He believed that they made no contributions to the world and all they did was take.He didn't just persecute Jews though, but Catholics, Gypsies, and homosexuals. He wanted the "perfect race", blonde hair, blue eyes, and fit and healthy. it's funny because he had brown hair and brown eyes.

[tietzedet]

Many of the 'theories' about Hitler's hatred of the Jews are no more than fanciful guesswork.
The reasons given by Hitler in his autobiography, 'Mein Kampf', are not trustworthy. The book is basically propaganda.
In the last 15 years or so historians have increasingly distinguished between how he acquired the ordinary antisemitism of his background and time (Roman Catholic Upper Austria around 1900-1905) and the obsessive hatred that later became one of his hallmarks.
It appears that, contrary to what he says in 'Mein Kampf', Hitlers extreme antisemitism only arose towards the end of World War 1 or even later, possibly only when he found that it was the easiest way of producing wild cheering in the beer halls of Munich. (See Volume 1 of Ian Kershaw's two volume biography, Hubris, Penguin Books 1998).
There had been anti-Jewish prejudice of varying degrees of intensity in many parts of Europe and elsewhere for a long time. A distinctive feature of Hitler's antisemitism was that it was formulated as conspiracy theory. For many, especially in Bavaria, this went hand in hand with the 'stab-in-the-back' theory, that is, with the view that Germany had not been defeated on the battlefield but had been brought down by liberal, socialist and communist subversives on the home front. Potentially, this link made antisemitism particularly explosive.
In much of Europe it was assumed that Jews were communists. This, too, was potentially highly inflammatory. Despite his ranting against Jewish businessmen Hitler himself saw the Jews as the biological bearers of Bolshevism.
Against this background there are also many contributing factors and possible theories. Here are some points to consider:


Jealousy. Some Jews were successful and held influential positions in Austria and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. At the same time, the world was suffering in the Great Depression. For various reasons, including war reparations for World War I, Germany was being hit the hardest by the worldwide economic depression. Successful Jews were envied and blamed for "taking German jobs."

During World War I, communism was on the rise. Lenin's Revolution had forced Russia out of the war. The German Army at times faced near rebellion among their own troops. This contributed to Germany being forced to sue for peace. Since some socialist/communist leaders were Jewish this was exploited as another reason for Germans to hate Jews. Hitler often spoke of Bolshevik (communist) Jewry. There is still a strong association in people's minds between Jews and leftist.

Hitler and other Germans absorbed some of their parents' racism. Anti-Semitism has a long history.

Some Germans held to the belief that "Jewish bankers" were responsible for the Treaty of Versailles.

Jews became a scapegoat for all of Germany's economic problems. (According to this racist sentiment, "international Jewish financiers like the Rothschilds, Oppenheimers, Bilderbergs, etc., plunged the world into a war for their business profit.")

Hitler and many Nazis were influenced by the notoious anti-Semitic book called "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion."

Some claim that Hitler's mother was half-Jewish and he was ashamed of this. Hitler's grandmother on his father's side was said to have been a maid in the home of a Jewish family in Graz. When she left she was pregnant with his father. However, nobody has been able to give the street where the house was, and at the relevant time Jews were not allowed to live in Graz.

Hitler lived in Vienna from 1907 to 1913 and those were the most difficult years of his life. Hitler was trying to become an artist or to make himself a name in field of arts. He was twice rejected from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. The second rejection by the Academy was one of the most traumatic experience of his life; all his dreams were shattered. After discovering that four out of seven professors that rejected him were Jewish he blamed the Jews for his failure.

The Nazis had a vision of an Aryan German race that did not include Jews and many other groups of people.

Here is an example of Hitler's anti-Semitic racism from a speech given in Munich in July 1922: "His is no master people; he is an exploiter: the Jews are a people of robbers. He has never founded any civilization, though he has destroyed civilizations by the hundred...everything he has stolen. Foreign people, foreign workmen build him his temples, it is foreigners who create and work for him, it is foreigners who shed their blood for him."

Some say Hitler and the Nazis were simply opportunistic demagogues. Inciting hatred of the Jews was the means to an end. The Nazis used hatred of the Jews to unify the German people and create a new German empire. Nothing unites a people more than when they believe they are constantly under attack and fighting a common enemy. The Jews were convenient enemies. After propagating this idea of Jews being the scum of the earth so passionately, Hitler and the Nazis may have deluded themselves into believing it more deeply.

The Christian religions blamed the death of Christ on the Jews. One can see in the Bible the statement that the Jews demanded the death of Jesus, and said, "let it be upon our heads and that of our children." This became an excuse to abuse the Jews for more than a thousand years. It was not until the 1960's (I think) that the Catholic Church stated that the Jews were NOT to blame for the death of Jesus.

In the 1930s there was a lot of anti-Jewish feeling and resentment in the Western world. Many Jews who wanted to escape the persecution in Germany were refused entry into the US and other European countries and also many countries further afield.

Anti-Semitism has been rife throughout European history, largely because they were a distinct, easily identifiable group, who refused to integrate. (Those who really wanted to integrate converted.) Of course now we see pluralism as a virtue, and a variety of ethnicities and religions as a positive thing. However, if you want to set yourself up as the totalitarian dictator of a NATION then you have to establish a clear identity for that nation and stick to it; variety is an anathema.

Another key element of a dictatorship is fear, and a visible scapegoat experiencing the wrath of the state is a good way to keep people from stepping out of line.

Hitler stated: "The war is to be a war of annihilation". His henchman Heinrich Himmler declared: "All Poles will disappear from the world. . . . It is essential that the great German people should consider it as a major task to destroy all Poles." Thus, the Holocaust was not aimed at just Polish Jews; it was aimed at 'all Poles.' By being saturated with the teaching of the supremacy of the Aryan race and the inferiority of all others. Lukas states in The Forgotten Holocaust: "The Nazi theory of colonial empire in Poland was based on the denial of humanity to the Poles whom, next to the Jews, Hitler hated the most."Millions of Jews suffered and died simply because they were Jews in the ethnic sense. It mattered not to Hitler's henchmen whether they were Orthodox or atheistic Jews. They were condemned to the 'final solution,' or extermination, as Hitler's method of ridding Europe of all Jews was called. Likewise, the Slavs, who for Hitler's crusade were mainly the Poles and Russians, were condemned just for being Slavic, 'an inferior race' in comparison to the 'supreme' Aryan stock.
He didn't just hate the Jewish. He found that to be the best way to take over the world.


The Jews did absolutely nothing to deserve the treatment they got, so as the Africans and the Indians the Jews were just picked for hatred and unjust things but again they did absolutely nothing!




The key trouble was that since the 1870s the Jews had been the object of a fresh wave of demonization. On the whole this wasn't taken too seriously in Germany, but in Austria anti-Jewish conspiracy theories were spread by extreme right-wing politicians and also by the Roman Catholic Church, which knew perfectly well that these theories were rubbish. Young Adolf was a server (altar-boy) and was influenced by those conspiracy theories.




Well, there where more "sub-humans" as Hitler called those poor people, than he could handle. He had to find ways to kill the masses without making it too obvious. That's when the real Holocaust started! He built Concentration Camps, where he could kill hundreds of people at a time.

Hitler blamed the result of WWI on the Jews, as well as that, he hated them. When he took power he started rounding them up. He did the same when he started taking over other countries. Using the Jewish, polish, gay, gypsies, Slav, Russian and mentally challenged people as slave labor and then started to annihilate them in gas chambers. His reason ... hatred, he classed the above mentioned people as sub human and basically in his Nazi world there was no place for the "sub human" only the Aryan (blonde hair blue eyed Germans)


To understand the Holocaust you have to understand the Darwinian biology of the time. There was a growing sense, particularly since Ernst Haeckel, that there were those in society who were 'biologically' inferior and that for a 'fit' world to survive and thrive, those who were 'unfit' should be done away with. Instead of letting nature take its course, there was a unspoken sense that humans could take matters into their own hands. I am obviously not supporting this twisted logic, but that is a key to understanding how a number of things converged to create the nightmare of the century.



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